Seals and dolphins have been deployed for military purposes in the past

While seals and dolphins have been deployed for military purposes by Cold War foes America and the USSR, the attempt to use white whales in the Arctic is new for Russia, it has been claimed.

It is not clear how these whales would be used to stop strangers or if they would carry weapons of some kind.

Work was done to assess whether white whales could be used to “guard entrances to naval bases” in polar regions and “assist deep water divers and if necessary kill any strangers who enter their territory”, according to a report for TV Zvezda, owned by the Russian defence ministry.

“It was mainly about white whales with highly sensitive sonars,” stated the story, which stated that their performance at military tasks was not as reliable as seals.

“It was planned that white whales could be on duty at the entrances to naval bases.

“But (they) turned to be very delicate animals – they easily got ill after long swimming in cold polar waters.”

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